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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 31, 31 October 1919, Page 7

News of the death of Lord Alington, which has occurred after a- long illness at the age of 19, was received in London with much regret. As Mr. Humphrey Sturt Lord. Alington married in 1883 Lady Feodoromia Yorke, daughter of a former Lord Hardwicke,, and sister of Lady Magdalen Willianis-Bulkeley. He sat in the House of Commons fur tho Eastern Division of Dorsetshire, from ISOI to lftlH, when he.succeeded his father as second baron. Lord and Lady'Alington had four cliildren--tivo sons and Iwo daughters, but ■ the elder son, Captain Gerard Sliirt, Coldstream Guards, died on the day the armislieo was signed from wounds sustained early in tho \v:ir, and the title goes to his brother, Captain Napier Start, r,i; the Royal Air pnrco. \ handsome Sevres dinner service tliav was used at the Stale banquet at Buckingham Palace recenily was a discovery of tho Qu"ou, who unearthed it from somo forgotten corner at Windsor shortly after the commencement of the present reign. It seeinsito have been origin«Uy purchased by George 111.